Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-841-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-841-2020
Research article
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20 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 20 Oct 2020

Transport-limited fluvial erosion – simple formulation and efficient numerical treatment

Stefan Hergarten

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Transport-limited fluvial erosion - simple formulation and efficient numerical treatment: codes and data Stefan Hergarten https://doi.org/10.6094/UNIFR/166660

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Many contemporary models of large-scale fluvial erosion focus on the detachment-limited regime where all material entrained by the river is immediately excavated. This limitation facilitates the comparison with real river profiles and strongly reduces the numerical complexity. Here a simple formulation for the opposite case, transport-limited erosion, and a new numerical scheme that achieves almost the same numerical efficiency as detachment-limited models are presented.